Cooking utensil



y 9,1933- c. H. PICKERING ET AL 1,907,441

COOKING UTENS IL Filed Sept. 8, 1930 INVENTO s 7 (4199127155 hh czse/wa BY JOHN JIIMPBELL. /6/

TT RNEY Patented May 9, 1933 UNITED. STATES PATENT orrlca CLARENCE H. PICKERING AND JOHN CAMPBELL, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON COOKING UTENSIL Application filed September 8, 1930. SerialyNo. 480,428.

This invention relates to improvements in and 2, respectively. Each section comprises cooking utensils, and it hasreference in para metallic frame portion, or housing 3, which ticular to devices for cooking hot cakes, or may be polished or decorated as desired to the like,it being the principal object of the enhance the appearance of the utensil. Withinvention to provide novel and convenient in each of the frames, or housings, is an elecmeans in a device of that character whereby trical heatingelement 4. These may be of cakes placed thereon may be turned over any desired or suitable construction, and are after being cooked on one side for cooking on electrically connected by wires contained the other side. within a flexible, protective conduit 5 which More specifically stated, the present in-' permits-of the opening apart and closing tovention resides in the provision of an'elecgetherof the hinged sections. trically heated cooking utensil comprising The section l is provided at one side with complemental, paired sections, or heating surthe usual outlet 6 adapted to receive a plug faces, on which cakes may be cooked, with for connecting the device with an electric cirshallow molds arranged to rest upon one of cuit. Itis provided, also with supports 1 the surfaces, and to receive the cake batter whereby vit is mounted on a base plate, or and to cook'the cakes therein on one side; stand 7 Preferably there are insulating the said molds being pivotally mounted and washers 8, of fibre or other suitable mate 20 movable by means of a handle to swing up rial, disposed between the parts 1' and the posit the cakes in an inverted position on the securely together by screw bolts 9 which are other heated surface to cook on the other extended through the base, washer, and supside, while the molds are then returned to inports, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

itial'position to again receive batter. As herein shown, the base plate is some- Other objects of the invention reside in what larger than the section 1, and is prothe various details of construction, and in vided at theends with handles 7 It is to the combination of parts, and in their mode be understood, however, thatthe particular of operation, as will hereinafter be described. design or shape of the base portion and also In accomplishing these objects of the inof the heated sections 1 and 2 has no particvention, we have provided the improved deular bearin on the invention and may be tails of construction, the preferred forms of anything sultable. which are illustrated in the accompanying The heated section '1 is provided in the to drawing, whereina surface of its frame with a plate 10 which Fig. 1 is a plan View of the device opened adapted to be heated by its element 4; likefor use. wise, the section 2 is provided in the top sur 95 Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view on the line face of its frame with a plate 11 adapted to be 22 in Fig. 1. heated by its corresponding element 4. The

Referring more in detail to the drawing main surface of the plate 11 preferably is de- In a prefered embodiment of the device, pressedsomewhatbelowtherim portion thereit comprises a pair of electrically heated secof as shown in Fig. 4, forming a sort of shaltions, disposed side by side when the device low pan. The plate 10, however, is provided isinuse, and having the top surfaces designed in its top surface with two circular de resfor the cooking of cakes thereon. Prefersions 13 within which shallow, plate mol s 12 ably, the two sections are hinged together are adapted to fit. These molds are provided and, when not in use, may be closed together at one side with lugs 14 whereby they are sefor convenience in handling and storage, as curely fixed to a shaft 15, which serves as a are the ordinary types of .waflie molds. handle for inverting the molds and also as a As illustrated in the drawing, the two hinge pin for attaching the sections 1 and 2 complemental sections of the device are destogether. In the construction, as best illuswardly and over to such position as to debase plate 7 and'the several parts are held ignated, generally, by reference numerals 1 trated in'Fig. 1, the top plate 10 of the section 1, which is securely fixed in its frame or housing, has paired lugs 16 integral therewith at one side and the top plate 11 of the section 2 likewise has lugs 17. The various lugs 14-, 5 16 and 17 of the molds, and plates and 11. respectively, are alined to receive the shaft therethrough asahinge pin. The shaft then serves as the medium about which the section 2 may be opened, and closed.

10 For the purpose of opening and closing the section 2, it is provided with a handle 18 which serves as a support for the section when it is open, and holds the section substantially level with respect to the section 1.

'At the opposite ends of the shaft 15 are knobs by means of which itmay herotated to swing the mold plates upwardly from within the plate 10, and over through the are indicated in Fig. 4, to an inverted position over the plate 11.

Assuming that the device is so constructed, it would be used as follows: First, the'section 2 would be opened outwardly as from the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2, 'to the full line position, at which the top plates 10 and 11 of the heated sections are substantially horizontal and in the same plane "with the plate molds 12 disposed within the recesses in the plate 10, the cake batter is first placed therein. After the cakes thus formed have cooked on one side, the molds are swung upwardly and over, by rotating the shaft 15 by means of one of the knobs 20 at its ends. This operation deposits the two cakes on the plate 11 for cooking on their other sides, and while they are thus cooking, the molds returned to initial position, are again filled with batter. When the first cakes have cooked and have been removed from plate 11, the second set may then be deposited on the plate and the molds again filled.

While we have shown the device to be equipped with two molds, it is readily apparent that it may be equipped with one or more, as desired. Also, the molds may be in the form shown, or may consist simply of fiat plates adapted to rest flatly upon the plate 10. It is also apparent that the heated sections may be hinged together, or if it is desired, might be made in a rigid frame and not designed for closing together. a 4

Utensils of this character provide for the easy and quick cooking of cakes, and, if constructed with the cooking plates ofaluminum, or other suitable material, the cooking may be done without the use of grease. This permits the device to be used satisfactorily as a table cooker.

No invention is herein claimed in the design or minor details of construction, but it is desired that the claims be given an interpretation commensurate with the scope of the invention.

' Having thus described our invention what we claim as new therein and desire to secure ,by Letters Patent, is:

inverted position on the other heated surface for cooking on its other side.

2. A cake cooking utensil comprising a .pair of electrically heated plates, a mold plate adapted to rest on one of said heated plates to receive the cake for cooking on one side, a hinged mounting for said mold plate provided with handle means for actuating the mold to a position for depositing the cake therefrom on the other heated plate for cooking its other side.

3. A cake cooking utensil comprising a pair of hingedl connected sections, a rotatable shaft serving as a hinge pin whereby the sections are joined together; each of said sections having a top plate on which cakes may be cooked and containing means therein for heating the plates, cake molds disposed on one of said plates to receive the cakes therein for cooking on one side, means rigidly connecting the molds to the said shaft, and handles at the ends of the shaft whereby it may be rotated to swing the molds to positions to deposit the cakes therefrom in inverted positions on'the plateof the other section.

4. A cake cooking utensil comprising up per and lower complemental sections hingedly connected to permit the upper section to swing from closed to open position, a rotatable shaft serving as a hinge pin for joining said sections; each of said sections having a top plate, and containing an electrically heated element therein for heating its plate, one of said plates having depressions therein, cake molds disposed in said depressions and adapted to receive the cakes therein for cooking on one side, means rigidly connecting the molds with the hinge shaft and handles at the ends of the shaft whereby it may be rotated to swing the molds over to deposit the cakes therefrom in inverted positions on the plate of the other section.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 28th day of August 1930.

CLARENCE H. PICKERING. JOHN CAMPBELL. 

